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TIL that the rumbling sound your belly makes when you're gassy is called borborygmus

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QNX86 TIL that at the height of the Napoleonic wars, the British and French navies allowed ships carrying new rose varieties for Josephine Bonaparte to pass through the blockade
GYa4G TIL what Smartdust is... Smartdust is defined as a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, or chemicals. They are usually operated on a computer network wirelessly...
Y7agx TIL It took four weeks to scuttle USS America, the Only supercarrier ever sunk
V4lG TIL that SuperDry is actually a UK-based company that writes Japanese text on its clothing to emulate the practice of Japanese clothing companies that write meaningless English words on their clothes to attract appeal.
L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.